Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth at its hardest: via the infamous west ridge, without supplementary oxygen and in winter. Close up and personal, it is a gripping account of day-to-day life on an expedition like no other and of the struggle to live at high altitude.
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Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth at its hardest: via the infamous west ridge, without supplementary oxygen and in winter. Close up and personal, it is a gripping account of day-to-day life on an expedition like no other and of the struggle to live at high altitude.
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Add this copy of Everest the Cruel Way to cart. $15.47, very good condition, Sold by Rye Berry Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Diamond springs, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Vertebrate Publishing.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. pp. 166, "On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24, 000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest… 8vo.
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Add this copy of Everest, the Cruel Way to cart. $61.19, very good condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Eyre Methuen.
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 166, 12 plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0413487504 Faint foxing to front endpaper, otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (corners a trifle bumped) in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed); pp. 166, with 12 illustrations. A near fine copy. [Neate T04].
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Signed by Previous Owner. Dust jacket crisp and new with minute imperfections (seen from angled lighting) from handling.
Add this copy of Everest. the Cruel Way to cart. $90.06, good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1981 by Eyre Methuen.
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VG- in VG+ jacket. Signed by A Member of the Expedition Team. VG-/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (ex-library with rsms to verso title page & labels to rear endpapers, spine slanted, paper stock tanned, as usual, otherwise clean & bright) in dustwrapper (edges slightly rubbed); pp. 166, with 12 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate T04]. Flatsigned on title page 'John Porter', who accompanied Al Rouse, Pete Thexton, Joe Tasker, Paul Nunn and Brian Hall on this exceptionally trying expedition.
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Fine. 1st edition. 5p. l, 166pp. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981. Octavo. Plates (both sides) from photos. Fine copy of the scarce 1st UK edition in original blue buckram and dust jacket. fine Neate T04. Account of an unsuccessful attempt on the west ridge of Everest. Tasker and Boardman were later killed while attempting the unclimbed north-east ridge of Everest in 1982.
